chianti_cimex_reads rated Anne Hébert: 4 stars
Don’t bother with this one. Read “The Comanche Empire” by Pekka Hämäläinen instead.
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"For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. Yes, indeed." - Mary Oliver
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22% complete! chianti_cimex_reads has read 11 of 50 books.
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chianti_cimex_reads rated Hedda Gabler: 3 stars
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
"In 1890, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen completed Hedda Gabler, a play that questioned the role of women in Victorian society …
Review of 'Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History' on 'Goodreads'
1 star
chianti_cimex_reads rated O pioneers!: 2 stars
O pioneers! by Willa Cather (The World's best reading)
"Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend." …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Notes from underground: 3 stars
Notes from underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground (pre-reform Russian: Записки изъ подполья; post-reform Russian: Записки из подполья, tr. Zapíski iz podpólʹya), also translated as …
chianti_cimex_reads rated The power of myth: 3 stars
The power of myth by Joseph Campbell
The Power of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminent scholar, writer, …
chianti_cimex_reads rated No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy: 2 stars
No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy by Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men is a 2005 novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, who had originally written the story …
chianti_cimex_reads rated A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories: 5 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Thou Art That: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Earth is weeping: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated The robber bridegroom: 2 stars
The robber bridegroom by Eudora Welty
Combination of fairy tale and ballad story about a bandit chief and the daughter of a Mississippi planter.
